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Pavel Bobek is one of the greats of Czech popular music, best known for his
Czech versions of songs by American artists like Kris Kristofferson, Bob
Dylan, and his long-time hero Johnny Cash. A trained architect, he started
out in the Czechoslovak bigbít (rock’n’roll) scene of the late 1950s
and early 1960s, singing with an early version of the band Olympic before
becoming a member of the Semafor theatre, one of the country’s most
vibrant cultural institutions in the Communist era. More
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This edition of our Sunday Music Show, is devoted to the popular
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be among the Czech Republic's most beloved musicians. More
Sunday Music ShowMoravian folk fusion band Hradišťan and Jiří Pavlica
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music. The band started as a folk music ensemble in the south Moravian town
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popularity and critical acclaim began when Jiří Pavlica became the
band’s leader, or primáš, in the 1970s.
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Sunday Music ShowSunday Music Show
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we look back at some of the most popular Czech bands in the 1990s, after
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PanoramaHow Petr became Pedro and forged a conexion with Cuban musicians
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Music ExpressPavel Bobek – veteran voice of Czech country pop
In this edition of Music Express we meet a veteran of the Czech pop and
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theatre group for two and a half decades, had numerous hits with Czech
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idol Johnny Cash. More
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